Word: nourishments
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...play is Hickey, the drummer, the shill for salvation through recognition of selfdelusion. He annihilates the pipedreams in which the patrons of Harry Hope's back room curl up like quaking children in the middle of a nightmare. Everyone in Harry Hope's place needs booze to nourish his dream, but it is the dream itself, not alcohol, that keeps them alive. Hickey, underneath his salesman's brass and chatter, needs rage, contempt and anguish to galvanize the entire play...
...order and justice that Allah intends the entire world eventually to accept. That obviously clashes with the ancient vision of the Arabs' cousins in Israel, who have a different covenant with God. Such spiritual implications may not have started the latest Middle East war, but they certainly nourish the hostilities, making them more difficult to stop-and easier to start again...
...destiny of nations depends on the manner in which they nourish themselves...
Some eat such foods for religious reasons, believing that certain items nourish the soul as well as the body. "Eating is a spiritual movement," says one of Erewhon's customers. "It upsets me to see people eating junk. It's just an escape, like drugs or alcohol." Followers of the late George Ohsawa, a Japanese-born philosopher, subscribe to a macrobiotic diet that relies on tea, brown rice, beans and nuts. That program may slight fats. A New Jersey girl who followed it too strictly died of malnutrition, and parents who limit their infants to the guru...
...would rather feed than judge. Like stray kittens, they rub up against you in an imploring, hard-to-resist way and make friendly little noises. They are so thin that one yearns to put flesh on the bones of their plots, give them vitamin-rich lines to chew, and nourish their characters and situations...